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Jonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he remains a contributing writer. Eig has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Slate.com, among others. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, won the Casey Award for best baseball book of the year.


Muhammad Ali, Author of “The Greatest Book of All Time”?

The Early 1970s were Hard Times for an American Icon
November 1, 2017  By Jonathan Eig
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